The geese are squawking and going into flight in a seemingly wild way. Immediately after this scene you see the boys on the staircase squawking in a similar way. This is juxtaposition, two things side by side to compare.
What does it mean for the boys to be compared with the geese?
Dead Poets Society - Idioms 2
Carpe diem
What time of day is shown in this picture?
The geese are squawking and going into flight in a seemingly wild way. Immediately after this scene you see the boys on the staircase squawking in a similar way.
This is juxtaposition, two things side by side to compare.
What does it mean for the boys to be compared with the geese?
Truth about the 1812 Overture
Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman
Vocabulary
- Alumni – persons who graduated from a school or college
- carpe diem -"seize the day" - make your like extrodorinary
- daffodils- a kind of flower that is yellow and blooms in the spring
- daring – willing to do something dangerous
- dispel – get rid of; to eliminate
- fertilizer – material put on plants to help them grow; plant food
- fester – become infected and have pus
- hormones – chemicals the body makes, often meaning sexual ones
- iota – very little amount
- legacy – what one leaves, when dead, for the next generations
- overture -a piece of music written as an introduction to a longer musical piece, especially an opera or symphony
- oyster – a shell fish that produces pearls
- peruse - to read something in a careful way
- phalanx
- pubescence – the time when your body develops from being a child to being an adult: teenage years
- reluctant - unwilling and slow to do something
- sentiment- an opinion or feeling that you have about something such as pity, love, or sadness that is considered to be too strong
- unfortunate - happening because of bad luck
- weakling - someone who is not physically strong
idioms